# Understanding the Autistic Experience Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-education-matters-7485880/understanding-the-autistic-experience Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-education-matters-7485880/understanding-the-autistic-experience.md Podcast: [Home Education Matters](https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-education-matters-7485880) Published: 2026-05-31T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://home-education-matters.captivate.fm/episode/159 Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6f5039bb-4be6-44b9-8afa-d4b90cffe06a.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/home-education-matters-7485880/episodes/understanding-the-autistic-experience Duration seconds: 4262 ## Resource In this week's episode Emily is joined by Jess Garner who founded Gr0ve, a mentoring service for neurodivergent young people. From diagnosis and self identification to community, belonging and co-regulation, this episode is packed full of tips, insights and advice on navigating the autistic experience as a family. Jess is late-realised Autistic, ADHD mother to neurodivergent children, and a former secondary school teacher and middle leader. She founded GROVE, an Autistic-staffed online organisation supporting Autistic young people, after her older child was unable to attend school. Jess recognised a gap in support for Autistic children to connect, belong and explore what being Autistic means to them. Jess holds a Master’s in Autism, with all her work focused on children and young people. Jess's Facebook page @gr0ve_org on Instagram Jess's Website Links mentioned in episode: What Works for Autistic Children, Luke Beardon Neuroqueer Heresies, Nick Walker We are all Neurodiverse, Sonny Jane Wise Pete Wharmby https://theautisticadvocate.com/ https://ausometraining.com/ https://autismunderstood.co.uk/ https://www.spectrumgaming.net/ This podcast is a labour of love, and time and energy and commitment and lots of coffee! It really helps us if you can follow us on our social media channels and comment to let us know if you enjoyed the episode, what you'd like to see more / less of and generally come and say hi! Instagram - TikTok - FB page - Our Private FB group ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/home-education-matters-7485880/episodes/understanding-the-autistic-experience/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-education-matters-7485880/understanding-the-autistic-experience.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.